When he sent millions of crowns to the Olomouc startup Worldee in the role of an angel investor in the summer, it was a symbolic foreshadowing of what had come now. The main architect of the Czech printing miracle, Josef Průša, is launching a startup acceleration program.
In its Holešovice workshop, PrusaLab is ready to provide new commercial as well as artistic and educational projects with funds for production, mentoring, payment of initial costs up to CZK 150,000 and possibly investments.
“I think that technologies are one of the most important industries for the future of the Czech Republic and our accelerator is one of the first steps in how we want to be helpful,” says Josef Průša about the start.
The condition is, for Loga, quite logically, the hardware, the innovative character of the project and its at least partial opening in the form of open source, which the thirty-year-old entrepreneur professes from the very beginning. Just start with an idea.
“One of the main advantages of our acceleration program is a diverse team of digital manufacturing experts who will work together on the products,” says Ondřej Kašpárek, who heads the PrusaLab workshop. Electrical developers, designers, constructors and printers can help people with a new project.
Kašpárek claims that the accelerator, whose partners include the Vodafone Foundation and the venture capital fund Nation1, comes as a reaction to the ongoing pandemic, which disrupted the current operation of the creative workshop.
“Before the crisis, a number of members passed through Prusalab, who, thanks to our background, started their own business. The accelerator is a way to reopen the workshop to the Czech creative community in these unfavorable times. “
The printing empire of Prusa Research earned about 1.5 billion crowns last year, this year it will be tens of percent more, while the profitability of EBITDA is in the order of hundreds of millions of crowns.
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